Martin
Nurse Slams Century For Cosmos
August 6th, 2008(Celebrating 26 Anniversary)- Martin Nurse stroked
a classy century for Cosmos last Sunday against Jamexpol at Roy Wilkins
Park, Queens in his bid for a recall to the Barbados national team
for the upcoming Caribbean KFC tournament in September.

Martin
Nurse

With
the religious tent pitched in the Northern end of the wicket, a resurrected
and otherwise explosive Nurse -a very talented young player- showed
that he has the potential to concentrate and occupy the wicket when
required. He remained focused throughout, even though, he was the
unfortunate candidate of dubious umpire decisions in the earlier matches
with scores of 88, 76, 65. He reached the boundary with fourteen exquisitely
executed fours through cover point and the mid-wicket region and a
towering six over mid off in his 74 balls inning of 122 runs.

Nurse's innings laid the foundation for Cosmos with an opening partnership
of 93 runs by the 10th over with Shafeek Shah (23) and then a century
partnership for the second wicket with Dixeth Palmer (39). When Nurse
departed caught on the cover point boundary, Mahabir Moonesar (58
off 39 balls) and Norman Hutchinson (46 off 26 balls) showed the dept
in the cosmos batting lineup as they proceeded to construct a solid
century partnership for the sixth wicket in the last ten overs, their
blitz in the closing overs propelled Cosmos to massive 354 for 6 off
35 overs.

On a wicket that
offered some bounce for the bowlers, it was always going to be difficult
for this opposition and that proved to be an uphill climb for Jamexpol
in their reply. Kevin Darlington's pace was evidence too good for
the batsman’s edge, instead, he dismantled the woodwork with
2 for 24, while Sham Ali kept the wicket-keeper and the slips cordon
awake as he swung his way back with 3 for 22.

The opening spell between Darlington and Ali left Jamexpol batsmen
asphyxiated after fourteen overs. It was even more pace with the ball
in Nurse's hand, he cleaned up the tail with a solitary over to complete
an excellent all round performance as Jamexpol was bundled out for
just 51 runs.

It was a Cosmos victory
for the record books. Winning by 303 runs is the highest margin of
victory by a team in the Metropolitan Cricket League. Cosmos will
play River Valley next Sunday at Floyd Bennett.